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Jean-Pierre Millon is lead director at Cypress Bioscience [NASDAQ: CYPB] and a director at CVS Caremark [NYSE:CVS], Medical Present Value, a private medical administration company, and Prometheus Labs, a specialty pharmaceutical company. He is a co-founder of BLS LLC, a consulting and investing entity based in Indianapolis. He recently joined the board of HAPC, a special-purpose acquisition company. He was a special limited partner at Care Capital LLC, a HealthCare Venture Fund, from 2001 until 2003. Mr. Millon’s board position at Caremark evolved as a result of Caremark’s purchase of AdvancePCS, a pharmacy benefit management company, in March 2004. Before his post with Caremark, Mr. Millon was named to the board of AdvancePCS in 2000 upon the merger of Advance Paradigm and PCS Health Systems. Mr. Millon was president and chief executive officer of PCS from 1996 to 2000.
Prior to joining PCS, Mr. Millon was an executive with Eli Lilly and Company, PCS’ former parent company. Mr. Millon’s career with Lilly and its subsidiaries spanned two decades and was highlighted by leadership positions in the United States and executive posts in the Orient, Europe and the Caribbean Basin.
Mr. Millon served as president and general manager of Lilly Japan K.K. and vice president of the Lilly pharmaceutical division in Kobe, Japan.
Before transferring to Japan, Mr. Millon directed strategic planning, personnel, Japan business planning and marketing research efforts at Lilly headquarters in Indianapolis. Prior to those corporate directorships, Mr. Millon served as general manager of the Caribbean Basin in Puerto Rico. He also served in financial leadership roles in West Germany, Belgium and France.
He earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France, and a degree in economics from the University of Lyon, France. He was awarded a Master’s of Business Administration in finance from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
A native of Paris, Mr. Millon is fluent in French, English, German and Spanish. He has a strong interest in civic and business organizations. He is a trustee of the Barrow Foundation, a leading neurological institution in Phoenix. He is a member of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management Alumni Advisory Board.
Mr. Millon shares his time between Phoenix Ariz. and La Jolla, Calif. | 